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Concerns over impact of controlled burns

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The University of SA (UniSA) has raised concerns about the impact of prescribed burns on reptiles in the Mt Lofty Ranges, including the skink, following the results of a two-year study.

The study analysed the health of more than 1750 reptiles from eight species and how they responded to fire in the native stringybark forests of the Mt Lofty Ranges, finding that the skink had “significantly poor...


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